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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Characterization by NMR and molecular modeling of the interaction between MCL-1 protein and its potential inhibitors
No full textLe cancer de l’ovaire est la cinquième cause de décès par cancer chez la femme en France. La prolifération tumorale dans ce cancer est liée principalement à la dérégulation de l’apoptose. Cette dérégulation joue un rôle clé principalement dans la pathogénèse et la progression tumorale mais aussi dans le développement des résistances aux chimiothérapies existantes. La croissance accrue des cellules tumorales dans le cas du cancer de l’ovaire est liée à une surexpression des protéinesanti-apoptotiques de la famille Bcl-2, en particulier les protéines MCL-1 et Bcl-xL. L’inhibition concomitante de ces deux protéines conduit à la mort des cellules chimiorésistances. A ce jour, seuls les inhibiteurs de Bcl-xL ont démontré une efficacité en clinique, et l’inhibition de MCL-1 reste problématique dans un contexte clinique. Dans ce contexte, l’objectif principal de ces travaux de thèse consiste à caractériser, par RMN et modélisation moléculaire, l’interaction entre la protéine MCL-1 et le Pyridoclax, foldamère oligopyridinique très prometteur, synthétisé au CERMN. La spectroscopie RMN nous a permis de définir le site d’interaction, d’estimer la constante d’affinité et de guider le Docking pour obtenir une structure tridimensionnelle du complexe MCL-1:Pyridoclax. Afin de conforter notre étude sur l’implication du Pyridoclax dans l’interaction, des fragments dérivés de ce dernier ont été utilisés. La caractérisation de l’interaction entre ces fragments et la protéine MCL-1 a permis de relever l’importance du groupement styryle du Pyridoclax dans l’interaction avec la protéine MCL-1. Par ailleurs, nous avons élargi notre étude à d’autres inhibiteurs potentiels de MCL-1 tels que certains médicaments existant sur le marché. La spectroscopie RMN a permis de mettre en évidence et de caractériser l’interaction entre deux de ces médicaments (le Torsémide et le Déférasirox) et la protéine MCL-1. Pour finir, afin d’améliorer l’affinité de ces médicaments pour la protéine MCL-1, des modifications structurales ont été proposés en se basant sur la littérature. Les dérivés proposés semblent avoir une affinité très importante pour la protéine MCL-1.Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death of women in France. Tumor proliferation in this cancer is mainly related to the deregulation of apoptosis. This one plays a main role in pathogenesis and tumor progression but also on the term of development of resistance to existing chemotherapies. The increased growth of tumor cells in ovarian cancer is linked to an overexpression of the anti-apoptotic proteins of the Bcl-2 family, in particular the MCL-1 and Bcl-xL proteins. The concomitant inhibition of these two proteins leads to the death of chemoresistance cells. To date, only Bcl-xL inhibitors have demonstrated clinical efficacy andinhibition of MCL-1 remains problematic in a clinical context. In this context, the aim of this thesis is to characterize, by NMR and molecular modeling, the interaction between MCL-1 protein and potential inhibitors including Pyridoclax, an oligopyridine foldamer. NMR spectroscopy allowed us to define the interaction site, estimate the affinity constant and guide Docking to obtain a three-dimensional structure of the MCL-1:Pyridoclax complex. In order to obtain more information on the involvement of Pyridoclax in this interaction, fragmentsderived from it has been used. The characterization of the interaction between these fragments and MCL-1 protein revealed the importance of the styryl group of Pyridoclax in the interaction with MCL-1 protein. Furthermore, we expanded the scope of our study to include some existing drugs able to interact with MCL-1. NMR spectroscopy allowed us to identify and characterize the interaction between two of these drugs (Torsemide and Deferasirox) and the MCL-1 protein. Finally, in order to improve the affinity of these drugs for MCL-1 protein, structural modifications had been proposed based on the literature. The proposed derivatives appear to have a very high affinity for MCL-1 protein
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Valorisation de la caractérisation du polymorphisme par RMN en galénique industrielle
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Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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